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Recommended by us on 21st October 2011
...according to our Clinton on Fri 21 Oct, 2011.
The age old debate - city versus mountains. I still can't decide - they both have their own benefits. What about a City in the mountains - is that possible? Anyway this sounds like a cross between Toro Y Moi remixing Hall and Oates and the type of thumping pulsating music that would blast out of a dingy underground Berlin Gay Club (so I've heard). The press release mentions Paddy McaLoon and as an enormous fan of the man I just can't hear anything remotely like him in the churning beats or Darryl Hall vocal cut ups, similarly I'm finding it hard to imagine Paddy Mcallon frequenting a German hardcore gay club, his beard will get caught on all the leashes. The B side is more on a 4/4 computer funk tip with some weird synthetic squwarking noises and squeaking sax's. Its relentless. So this is the solo thing of Joel Ford, one half of Ford and Lopatin.
Airbird is the solo project from Joel Ford, bassist of Tigercity and one half of Ford & Lopatin. After a split-cassette release with Megafortress on The Curatorial Club, Ford releases Airbird’s first single, City Vs. Mountains on his own label Software. On lead track “City Vs. Mountains,” cicadas buzz as Airbird exits Babylon on his computer funk quest back to nature. This 12″ is a road dog that packs a lot of punch. Get lost in the production intricacies or don’t and z o n e. There’s a remarkable clarity in the vocals that distinguishes Airbird from the contemporary murk pack, opting to actually belt in a manner befitting of early 80s McCartney or Paddy McAloon. If side A is a night of driving, “Rotating Cloud” marks the day’s return with sparse, delicate high register melodies and pulses which gradually give way to a midi locked safari of wildlife house. Enter zookeeper Al Carlson, Software’s engineer & mix guy yes ”” but he also packs a gnarly Alphabet City avant RIPPP when he wants to, and on multiple saxes.
The bird has flown…
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